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27 January 2014

Thematic Focus: Statelessness

News:
I included a reference to the Tilburg Law Review's Special Issue on Statelessness in my last post on statelessness. However, since then, it was announced that free access to the full-texts of all articles would be granted for one year!
UNHCR's Statelessness Unit announced on its Facebook page that Peru just acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons - the first country to do so in 2014.Events:

The State and the Stateless: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt Reconsidered, London, 13 February 2014 [info]
- Free event, but ticket required.

Free Legal Training on New Immigration Rules on Statelessness, Leeds, UK, 19 February 2014 [info]
- Registration is on a first come-first served basis and places are limited.

Publications:

Citizenship, Statelessness, and Structural Vulnerability to HIV, Presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, 1-3 May 2014 [extended abstract]

ENS Submission to the European Commission Consultation on the Future of Home Affairs Policies: An Open and Safe Europe – What Next? (European Network on Statelessness, Jan. 2014) [text]

Is Citizenship the Answer? Constructions of Belonging and Exclusion for the Stateless Rohingya of Burma, Working Paper, no. 107 (COMPAS, 2013) [text]

The Problem of Statelessness in Ukraine and the Ways of Addressing It (UNHCR, 2014) [text]
- See also related ENS blog post.

Statelessness Matters 10 Years on from Al-Kateb: Statelessness in the Australian Context, Presentation at the Asian Conference on Politics, Economics and Law, Osaka, 21-24 November 2013 [info]
- Follow this link for the virtual presentation. See also earlier related journal article.

Taking Suffering Seriously: A Robust Approach to Enforcing the Right to Nationality of Stateless People, Thesis (University of Saskatchewan, Dec. 2013) [text]